Re: Apple M1 iso or vhdx image for Parallels

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, at 07:47, Robin Stern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw a video from one of your developers, and it seems he was able to
> somehow test freebsd on Apple M1 macbook. Parallels on Apple M1
> accepts only vhdx or iso images. The aarch64/ARM64 images are not
> available in either of the format. There is a vhd image, but it is not
> accepted by Parallels. Can you please post the vhdx or iso images?
>
> Link to VM aarch64 images:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/13.0-RELEASE/aarch64/Latest/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aman

I don't have an M1 here to check but I'm reasonably sure this is what you need.

The memsticks have been dual-format for a while, so just try renaming it to
memstick.iso and see what happens?

Failing that,

$ qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O vhdx memstick.img  memstick.vhdx

IIRC qemu-img is (currently) not available on arm64 platform, you'll need
amd64 somewhere to do this.

Please report back if any of these options worked.

A+
Dave